Super Sentai Artisan Shinobimaru Official Page Opened

Bandai Japan has opened an official page for the next Super Sentai Artisan release: a fully-articulate DX Shinobimaru!

The personal Mecha of Shuriken Sentai Ninningers’ Aka Ninger is brilliantly recreated with a superb level of articulation and vastly improved paint details. This release is still perfectly compatible with the DX Shurikenjin Mecha set, already released.

This Artisan item will be open for orders beginning February 27 and ending May 8 with a release scheduled for July 2015. Shinobi Maru will cost 5378 Yen before shipping, handling and related fees.

It looks like he doesn't turn into an arm for Shurikenjin Drago, which isn't a negative for me. The price point, though... OUCH. The miniature Akaninja is cool. Will I shell out for this? I'm not sure, yet. This may be the closest thing we get to a Ninninger-related Figuart.

While I do still want one, I'm not as enthused as I though I'd be. I'll echo the above sentiment, this is definitely what DX Shinobimaru could & should have been from the outset.

Exactly, just look at Magiking. The red zord from that season was perfectly poseable and had to perform an even more complex transformation than Shinobimaru does. I love my Shurikenjin, but I'm a tad bit disappointed after seeing this....this should have and COULD have been the DX. I feel like they skimped on the DX version just so that they could sell a "premium" edition. Which brings me to the second problem: This LOOKS like part of a DX mecha, and I'm not seeing anything that makes this tiny figure worth $60 on its own.